like I said, your FAT is prolly fried.
"Where's the BACTINE?! Some of this blood is MINE!!" -- JTHM
"Where's the BACTINE?! Some of this blood is MINE!!" -- JTHM
Windows NEVER gives me problems....
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OK, yesterday afternoon, I deleted a few things (mainly zip files and old text files) that were clogging up my 8GB hard drive. I became suspicious when they didn't show up in the Recycle Bin as they should've and just disappeared.
Next thing I know, Windows is reporting that I'm down from 200mb free to 50mb free, even though I've just deleted some files! I'm by now thinking W-T-F!
Has anyone else here had this problem and fixed, or does anyone know the solution? I'm thnking that maybe an overnight defrag might solve it (I need to defrag anyway) but what the hell is up? Cheers.
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"I'm the Princess of Canada, I just don't have the official documentation to prove it!" - Dr. Evil.
OK, yesterday afternoon, I deleted a few things (mainly zip files and old text files) that were clogging up my 8GB hard drive. I became suspicious when they didn't show up in the Recycle Bin as they should've and just disappeared.
Next thing I know, Windows is reporting that I'm down from 200mb free to 50mb free, even though I've just deleted some files! I'm by now thinking W-T-F!
Has anyone else here had this problem and fixed, or does anyone know the solution? I'm thnking that maybe an overnight defrag might solve it (I need to defrag anyway) but what the hell is up? Cheers.
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"I'm the Princess of Canada, I just don't have the official documentation to prove it!" - Dr. Evil.
maybe the reading is just ****ed up. once i deleted maybe 30 megs of stuff and it reported to me that i had gained about 400 megs. i rebooted and the reading was correct.
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Nice topic, but I wouldn't want to live here! /~unreal/ubb/html/wink.gif
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Nice topic, but I wouldn't want to live here! /~unreal/ubb/html/wink.gif
I declare myself to be the self-annointed voice of reason for PuF! Opinions expressed by Taskmaster are not necessarily those of Planet Unreal!
If you hold the shift key down (or it was stuck) files are deleted directly - bypassing the recycle bin. Maybe that is what happened?!
I declare myself to be the self-annointed voice of reason for PuF! Opinions expressed by Taskmaster are not necessarily those of Planet Unreal!
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Well the defrag (which was truly epic - 10 hours and 20 minutes) didn't help.
I didn't hold the shift key down and I'm sure it wasn't stuck, although thanks for the suggestion Task.
If my FAT is indeed fried, then what can I do to restore it back to it's former glory? I might just write it off and hope it one day comes back, but at the moment files are building tower blocks on my hard drive because space is so limited /~unreal/ubb/html/wink.gif
Whichever woman said that chocolate is a substitute for sex obviously didn't appreciate the true purpose of chocolate.
I didn't hold the shift key down and I'm sure it wasn't stuck, although thanks for the suggestion Task.
If my FAT is indeed fried, then what can I do to restore it back to it's former glory? I might just write it off and hope it one day comes back, but at the moment files are building tower blocks on my hard drive because space is so limited /~unreal/ubb/html/wink.gif
Whichever woman said that chocolate is a substitute for sex obviously didn't appreciate the true purpose of chocolate.
If your FAT is damaged, a prog like Norton MIGHT be able to save it. Not likely tho. Also, if a defrag takes that long, it's a really good sign that your hard drive is in the crapper and about to be flushed. I'd say it was time for a new one.
"Where's the BACTINE?! Some of this blood is MINE!!" -- JTHM
"Where's the BACTINE?! Some of this blood is MINE!!" -- JTHM
Actually there is a relatively easy way to help fix your FAT, though it isn't 100% in the fix it won't scrag your drive any further /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif
Boot into DOS (oh dear, are you afraid of the CLI?) at the prompt type fdisk /mbr
notice the /mbr it is _VERY_ important. What you are telling fdisk (the fixed disk setup program) to do is rebuild the Master Boot Record.
Not only is this a fairly safe operation, it can fix annoying problems like this and as an added bonus, any FAT viruses that you currently have will blow themselves up and go away /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif
I belch in your general direction.
Boot into DOS (oh dear, are you afraid of the CLI?) at the prompt type fdisk /mbr
notice the /mbr it is _VERY_ important. What you are telling fdisk (the fixed disk setup program) to do is rebuild the Master Boot Record.
Not only is this a fairly safe operation, it can fix annoying problems like this and as an added bonus, any FAT viruses that you currently have will blow themselves up and go away /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif
I belch in your general direction.
Thanks tykeal I'll try that.
BTW, I'm not afraid of the CLI /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif I used to be (and still am) an Amiga user.
Whichever woman said that chocolate is a substitute for sex obviously didn't appreciate the true purpose of chocolate.
BTW, I'm not afraid of the CLI /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif I used to be (and still am) an Amiga user.
Whichever woman said that chocolate is a substitute for sex obviously didn't appreciate the true purpose of chocolate.
Hmm I dunno if the fdisk command did the trick or not, but I've got a lot more free space. Maybe it did work. Cheers /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif
Whichever woman said that chocolate is a substitute for sex obviously didn't appreciate the true purpose of chocolate.
Whichever woman said that chocolate is a substitute for sex obviously didn't appreciate the true purpose of chocolate.